Ko Un
1933 -

The Korean poet, essayist and novelist Ko Un was born as Ko Untae to a peasant family in Gunsan, North Jeolla province. He...

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Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962

In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...

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Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Williams, Charles
1909 - 1975

Charles Williams was a ground-breaking author of noir crime fiction. More than two thirds of his books came out as pulp...

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